Quiz! Alexander Wang Sample Sale or Polling Place?

It seems there are confusing, frustrating, and slow-moving lines just about everywhere today!

See if you can tell the difference between these shocking dispatches from outside the annual Alexander Wang sample sale in Soho, New York, and those from queues at various polling places. Winner gets either a Diego Bucket Bag in black with antique brass-stud gold trim or an “I Voted!” sticker.

A. “stand on a mile-long line”

B. “a mess”

C. “I just asked around: Nobody’s voted yet.”

D. “long lines, confusion, frustration and anger”

E. “I still can’t see the front of the building, but it looks like there’s about 70 or 80 people ahead of me. Every ten minutes or so we’ve moved up a bit.”

F. “I’d say there are roughly 170 people already on line.”

G. “the process took an hour”

H. “expect to wait on a long queue”

I. “By 8:40 a.m. at least 175 people were patiently reading papers, manipulating smartphones and drinking coffee, advancing not even a foot a minute.”

J. “It unfortunately doesn’t look like I’m getting in before I have to head to work. The moral of the story: If you got here at 7:20 a.m., you’ve still got a while to wait.”

K. “Alex Schroder, 23, said she hoped it would be no longer than an hour, because she had to get to her job as a preschool teacher.”

L. “about 350 people were still facing an hour-long wait at 10:30 a.m.”

M. the lines “stretched down the street and snaked around the building”